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TV actor that starred in three great series (1 Viewer)

Aerial Assault said:
Shatner - Star Trek, T.J. Hooker, and The Practice/Boston Legal. T.J. Hooker was a good show and is very underrated.
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TJ Hooker was good. Speaking of TJ Hooker, Heather Locklear was in multiple successful tv shows. Whether one considers them great is up to the viewer.

Dynasty

TJ Hooker

Spin City

Melrose Place

 
Aiden Gillen another with 2 great shows but no third that I'm familiar with. Game of Thrones as Littlefinger, and arguably the main character in The Wire's season covering city politics.

 
I can't believe I didn't think of Boreanaz. Maybe I was thinking of Buffy and Angel as the same show since he portrayed the same character, but as a huge fan of the latter and not nearly as much of an aficionado of the former, I think I was just completely out to lunch. :bag:

 
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Star Trek

TJ Hooker

Boston Legal

Rescue 911

Bill Shatner was the 1st guy the thread title sparked, I'm sure he was mentioned in the first few posts.

 
Actually didn't see Shatner on page 1, that seems odd given the thread title. You know he was Star Trek/Hooker, wasn't hard to find Boston Legal which had a good run for a few years.

I see other names mentioned but Shatner when you add in all the movies and other guest TV spots, to me he would be the biggest named actor but there are folks who hate this guy and don't give him his due. He's a compete turd in real life as shown by George Takei, homophobic, all of it true but I always have enjoyed him on film and on TV.

 
Ministry of Pain said:
Actually didn't see Shatner on page 1, that seems odd given the thread title. You know he was Star Trek/Hooker, wasn't hard to find Boston Legal which had a good run for a few years.

I see other names mentioned but Shatner when you add in all the movies and other guest TV spots, to me he would be the biggest named actor but there are folks who hate this guy and don't give him his due. He's a compete turd in real life as shown by George Takei, homophobic, all of it true but I always have enjoyed him on film and on TV.
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Post #16: https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?/topic/740307-tv-actor-that-starred-in-three-great-series/?p=18750700

 
Props to the recognition of David Boreanaz:

Buffy

Angel

Bones

In football terms, Boreanaz is kinda JAG, but he's parlayed that into a looong career (in industry terms) of starring in respectable shows.

However, all such threads begin and end with:

BRUCE CAMPBELL

(you first state the name, then just back into whatever stats are necessary)

Burn Notice

Hercules/Xena

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

(when using the term "great" for the thread, the above all qualify simply by Campbell's presence in them)

(oh, and he deserves partial credit for the greatest Old Spice commercial ever)

 
Don Quixote said:
Ministry of Pain said:
Actually didn't see Shatner on page 1, that seems odd given the thread title. You know he was Star Trek/Hooker, wasn't hard to find Boston Legal which had a good run for a few years.

I see other names mentioned but Shatner when you add in all the movies and other guest TV spots, to me he would be the biggest named actor but there are folks who hate this guy and don't give him his due. He's a compete turd in real life as shown by George Takei, homophobic, all of it true but I always have enjoyed him on film and on TV.
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Post #16: https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?/topic/740307-tv-actor-that-starred-in-three-great-series/?p=18750700
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Must have missed it Don, thanks.

 
Captain Fantastic said:
Props to the recognition of David Boreanaz:

Buffy

Angel

Bones

In football terms, Boreanaz is kinda JAG, but he's parlayed that into a looong career (in industry terms) of starring in respectable shows.

However, all such threads begin and end with:

BRUCE CAMPBELL

(you first state the name, then just back into whatever stats are necessary)

Burn Notice

Hercules/Xena

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

(when using the term "great" for the thread, the above all qualify simply by Campbell's presence in them)

(oh, and he deserves partial credit for the greatest Old Spice commercial ever)
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Don't forget Ash vs Evil Dead, currently on Starz.

 
I'm partial to the Saved by the Bell king and queen

Mark Paul Gosselaar

Saved by the Bell

NYPD Blue

Franklin and Bash

Raising the Bar (underrated)

Hyperion Bay (underrated)

Tiffany Amber Thiesen

Saved by the Bell

90210

White Collar

 
Bull Dozier said:
I'm partial to the Saved by the Bell king and queen

Mark Paul Gosselaar

Saved by the Bell

NYPD Blue

Franklin and Bash

Raising the Bar (underrated)

Hyperion Bay (underrated)

Tiffany Amber Thiesen

Saved by the Bell

90210

White Collar
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I can still picture Tiffany Amber Thiesen in a bikini from 90210.
 
Mjolnirs said:
Rooting around in IMDB can be informative.

I thought maybe Harry Morgan, and sure enough there's Dragnet and MASH. I was sure he was in a third, but not so.

I see he was in 72 episodes of a show called Pete and Gladys in '60-'61. I have never heard of it, and don't know how popular it was (maybe the fact it was only 2 seasons answers that), but now I have.

When you see all of these different shows actors have been in, it shows how difficult a "hit" really is to stumble into.
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In the 1990s Morgan starred alongside Walter Matthau in a series of television movies for CBS as Stoddard Bell, a judge who is an acquaintance/nemesis/partner of Matthau's Harmon Cobb, an attorney (The Incident; Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV 1992), and Incident in a Small Town (1994 TV)). He also lent his voice to an episode of The Simpsons from season seven, where he once again played Bill Gannon; in the episode "Mother Simpson", Gannon and Joe Friday (voiced by Harry Shearer) are FBI agents trying to track down Homer's mother, who is a fugitive from justice.

Morgan also had a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter, a colleague of **** Solomon's. Morgan directed episodes for several TV series, including two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, two episodes of Hec Ramsey, one episode of Adam-12, and eight episodes of M*A*S*H. Morgan had a guest role on The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Raymond and a guest role on Grace Under Fire as Jean's pot-smoking boyfriend.

 
andy griffith

the andy griffith show

matlock

headmaster

the new andy griffith show

adams of eagle lake

salvage 1

the yeagers

Griffith also made other character appearances through the years on Playhouse 90, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, The Doris Day Show, Here's Lucy, The Bionic Woman, and Fantasy Island, among many others. He also reprised his role as Ben Matlock on Diagnosis: Murder in 1997, and his most recent guest-starring role was in 2001 in an episode of Dawson's Creek.

 
A lot of actors in 3 TV shows but as Officer Malloy mentioned the word "Great" is in the title. We could probably cut a few of these posts with that in mind.

 
Yvonne Strahovski

Chuck

Dexter

24

Edward James Olmos

Battlestar Galatica

Miami Vice

Dexter

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Mary McDonnell

Major Crimes

The Closer

Battlestar Galatica

 
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